I’ve always harboured a slight grudge against text messages, because they’re never treated as first-class citizens of internet messaging; they’re a hack built on an obscure part of the GSM specification, never intended to be used for person-to-person messages, and still to this day treated as temporary data. Few phones let you even save texts, let alone export them, but Series 60 users can download SMS Export from Nokia. Unfortunately, it only lets you export messages in your inbox (Why? Why!? Does Gmail not save your sent messages?), and the plain text output is encoded in UCS-2, which is not funny.

Remember kids, UTF-8 or die.